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LASTING MACHINE. N0.--288,689. Patented Nov. 20, 1883;

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MATTHIAS. BROOK, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO THE MOKAY &COPELAND LASTING MACHINE COMPANY, OF PORTLAND, MAINE.

LASTINGMACHINE- SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.288,689, dated November 20, 1883.

Application filed October 1, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MATTHIAS BROOK, of Boston, county of Suffolk, StateofyMassachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Lasting-Machines, ofwhich the following description, in connection with the accompanyingdrawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawings representinglike parts.

This invention is an improvement on United States Letters Patent No.213,857, granted April 1, 1879, to which reference may be had, and hasfor its object to avoid breaking or straining the parts by the arrivalof the rollerstuds, connected with the yokes which actuate thecross-head and sliding-plate, at the ends of the scroll cam-grooves,which give motion to the said parts. To obviate these difficulties Ihave provided the machine with a clutch and means to operate the same.whereby the said cams are stopped just before the ends of the scrollcam-grooves reach the said rollerstuds.

Figure 1 is a partial side elevation of enough of a lasting-machine suchas described in the said patent to enable my improvements to beunderstood. Fig. 2 is a top view of Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 is a section onthe line .00 as, Fig. 1, looking toward the left.

The cross-head A, frame B, sliding plate M, yokes candH, rodD, levers F,cam-diskscg, pro vided, respectively, with scroll cam-grooves O and G,and roller-studs 5, carried by the said yokes and entering the saidcam-grooves, are substantially as in the said patent. In this instancethe cam-disks c and g are con nected together and to the same shaft,71., supported in bearings 2 2, and the edge of disk 0 is toothed, to beengaged and driven by a pinion, O, fast to a sleeve, a, on a shaft, 0,supported in bearings 3 3, and provided with a pinion, a, which isengaged and driven by a pinion, a fast on the main shaft (5, supportedin suitable bearings, 4., the said shaft having loose upon it twobelt-pulleys, P 1?, provided with conical faces and driven in oppositedirections, as in the said patent, there being between the said pulleysasuitable conical h eaded quill, R R, which is splined on the shaft a sothat movement of the said headed quill, by

a suitable rock shaft or lever, P causes one or the other of the ends ofthe quill to engage one or the other of the said pulleys and drive theshafts a o in one or the other direction.

The end of the sleeve a has a notched plate,

b, which cooperates with a notched hub, b", splined upon the shaft 0 andprovided with an annular groove, which is embraced by the end of a leveror shipper, b pivoted at I). The lever b', at its rear end, has a pin orstud which is acted upon by a cam or tappet, b secured to the shaft n,and moved in unison with it, the high point of the said cam or tappetbeing so located with relation to the inner ends of the scrollcam-grooves O and G that the shipper or lever will be moved, as in Fig.3, to unclutch the clutch, composed of the parts b If, just before theroller-studs 5one in each yoke H and c-arrive atthe inner ends of therespective grooves G and 0, thus releasing the 'sleeve a and permittingthe camdisks 0 and g and shaft a to stop. When the conical-headed quillis in its central position a suitable brake, 0?, controlled by athumbscrew and spiral spring, d will operate upon the brake-wheel Y,substantially as in the said patent.

I claim 1. The cam grooved disk and pinion to turn it and a cam ortappet moved in unison with the said disk, combined with a clutch to Sodetermine the times of movement of the said pinion and disk, and withmeans, substantially as described, under the control of the said cam ortappet to effect the disengagement of the said clutch at a predeterminedposition of the cam-disk, substantially as described.

2. The rotating shaft a", its gear, the gear a, shaft 0, clutch-hub bsplined thereon, means, substantially as described, to move the samewhen the cam-grooved disk is turned to occupy a definite position, andthe sleeve a and its pinion and clutch part, combined with a cam-grooveddisk, to operate substantially as set forth. I

In testimony whereof I have signed my name 5 to this specification inthe presence of two subscribing witnesses.

MATTHIAS BROOK.

' Witnesses:

G. W. GREGORY, B. J. NoYEs.

